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Getting further off topic, rather not create noise to bother others, minimal |
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On Saturday, December 3, 2016 9:36:47 AM EST Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> Sure, and it probably will be the state of things 20 years from now, |
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> with Gentoo still having "little chance that even the minimum of |
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> release and bug-fixing goals will be met" and suffering a "rapid |
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> downfall of the distribution" :) |
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> The predictions of those paragraphs have not in fact come to pass. |
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The article is no spot on to things today, but does have lots of similarities. |
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> Would you agree that "if a person who repeatedly engages in personal |
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> attacks against other developers is permitted to remain with the |
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> project, then there is something wrong with the way the distribution |
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> is managed?" |
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I do not see how Gentoo the project as a whole is managed |
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> I find it a bit interesting that half of this article is about a |
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> failure to enforce a Code of Conduct that you don't actually think we |
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> ought to have, and that drobbins left in part because it wasn't being |
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> enforced. |
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That article is not correct on the Daniel Robbins aspect. I can have Daniel |
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comment if you like. It had more to do with leading Gentoo, resuming his |
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previous role etc. Nothing relating to CoC or individuals. |
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> Sometimes forks exist because individuals don't get along or have |
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> strong ideas for how things should work to the exclusion of other |
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> ideas of how things should work. That's fine, there is nothing wrong |
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> with forks. |
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It does not help the main community. My favorite story of such is Firebird and |
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its Vulcan fork. Which long story short was merged back into firebird and |
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became Firebird 3 :) |
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Good stuff can happen when people reunite. Not always the case with forks. |
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Some forks die. Not implying that in either case but historically that is the |
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case. Like XFree86 for example, over license changes. |
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> The current meta-structure of Gentoo is structured around the vision |
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https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/ |
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3ac5418dd061fc53f4b8d55a99773f4c |
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Been here before, said it all before... No need to repeat. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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